In «The Blue Sisters», Coco Mellors tracks this very contemporary fear of losing one's footing with disarming honesty, in the wake of four sisters on the edge of themselves.
The new literary season is a bit like a packet of popcorn at the movies: everything looks wonderful at first glance, but once you've plunged your hand into the mass, there's nothing but hard kernels. So to avoid this, let's exhume a little gem published in 1987 in the United States.
After the first volume, «The City in Flames», Don Winslow returns this year with «The City of Dreams», a long journey inspired this time by Virgil's «Aeneid». Between wanderings and realizations, what is the value of this continuation of Danny Ryan's adventures?
A new novel by American author Joyce Maynard, «Where the Happy People Lived» tells the story of a mother and wife's journey, peppered with failures and renunciations, but also with calm and smiles. A story partly inspired by her own life. And, yes, it shook me.
Consputed in his native country, praised in the French-speaking world, Bret Easton Ellis returns at the start of this year with a new novel, his seventh. No surprises here: it's still about disillusioned youth, violence, drugs and bourgeois boredom. A revival, really?
Consputed in his native country, praised in the French-speaking world, Bret Easton Ellis returns at the start of this year with a new novel, his seventh. No surprises here: it's still about disillusioned youth, violence, drugs and bourgeois boredom. A revival, really?
Consputed in his native country, praised in the French-speaking world, Bret Easton Ellis returns at the start of this year with a new novel, his seventh. No surprises here: it's still about disillusioned youth, violence, drugs and bourgeois boredom. A revival, really?
Hope Jahren makes a veritable declaration of love to science and trees in this autobiographical account, which has the «precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist», according to the New York Times.
With «Harlem Shuffle», American novelist Colson Whitehead delivers the tale of a black Harlem shopkeeper prey to the demons of his neighborhood. A breathtaking story.